WoW – More fun together!

The End

I’m really proud of our raid. We had everyone around this weekend, for the first time in ages. Friday night we were short one so our old buddy Fyuria, who’s back in the game, filled in. Squishi could only stay for two hours so we went and knocked out the first 7 encounters back to back. Considering two of the healers could barely focus for being sick, we did well. No wipes Friday, right? I forget. It was kind of a haze. I remember being mad about all the stupid hunter tokens dropping.

Saturday we had everyone so we came in, stood around for an inordinate amount of time, and finally pulled. First pull we got into phase 2. Second pull Toxic had a screen lock and we wiped on the third platform – two healing gives no margin for error. Third pull – we were all nice and healthy when phase 2 hit, we knew what we were doing, and Ado called us to ignore the second set of adds and just burn the boss. Boom! He died, an hour into raid.

We posed for screenshots and risked the wrath of Kerick by not lining up nicely. Oh well. Yes, I’m in tree form even though I dps’d this fight. I swapped back for the screenshot. Awesome job everyone!

I have to admit the kill almost feels like a letdown compared to the sheer rush that was killing the Lich King. Still I’m very proud of our raid. We’re going to have challenges in the future – Ado and Falahla can’t commit any more, but I’ve got a number of people interested in filling in, if their schedules can mesh. We might go down to one night for a while, or do DS on Fridays and weird fun crap like T11 heroics on Saturdays. It’s kind of up to what the raid wants and we’re looking for input. I’m interested in survival.

Oh so after we killed Deathwing we went and cleared Firelands for Falahla’s legendary. Next time we go in there we can get all the embers she needs to finish the bloody thing! Yay!

With Ado and Falahla leaving the raid you replace the only two odd ducks (hunter and mage) so you can pick up another druid, paladin, or priest and run a 3-class raid! You already have 3 priests and 3 druids, so it seems fair to get at least one more paladin to make it 3 each…then /roll to see which class gets 4.

I’ve been harrassing Zari to consent to a permanent role, partly because we need a shaman or mage for Hero/Lust/TW, and partly because I just plain like having him around.

I believe we have a couple of melee options for the other spot, either of which would fit nicely. I suppose both would be ok if we had to go that route, but I really think that having Hero/Lust/TW is not optional.

No more pallies!!! Totally bummed about Ado and Fahlala :(. I think the lack of a post kill rush is because we now expect to kill end bosses. Not necessarily on the first pull, but we all know the boss WILL go down.
And i’m game for whatever the group decides.